MOT cowboys

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johnny curt 1

johnny curt 1

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my mate has been here today with his disco wich apparently needed one little patch on the rear wheel arch for its mot at the end of this month

so we took the back carpet out haveing a little inspection after i noticed the hole was bigger that first thought

we uncovered the back half of the boot floor pan missing up either side where it meets the wheel arches and half a dozen patches along the rear crossmember that have been glued on with no nails and a couple of patches held on by pigeon **** on top of the wheel arches :mad::mad::mad:

this vehicle went through an mot with a load of welding that needed doing and me mate got charged £750 for the welding wich is just total shyte and a cowboy job to say the least :eek::eek::eek:

the disco was due to go back to the same place it was done at last year next week as soon as he saw all this crap he foned the garage and cancelled the mot booking :eek::D:D

it looks to me like last year this garage has done half the job fooked it off gave him a mot and thought well hammer him for welding next year well not if i can help it they wont :mad::mad:
 
cheers CM i just work to me little mottoe when doing anything like this just asking myself

would i give that an MOT certificate if not how can i expect anyone else to
 
johnny curt 1 said:
cheers CM i just work to me little mottoe when doing anything like this just asking myself

would i give that an MOT certificate if not how can i expect anyone else to
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Tidy work there JC and also a good motto to live by.

I always work to a similar standard of:

Don't serve anything to a customer that you wouldn't be happy to pay for if you were in their shoes.
 
the hardest thing ive welded yet was a crack in a cast iron engine block with an arc welder useing specialist rods it was £25 for 10 2.5 mm rods i was crapping meself
 
chunkymunky said:
Think I will. Which do you think to start with......

I shall do some reading I think
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get on ebay and look for either clarke, wolf or sip mig welders just ignore the gasless ones as the wire costs a bomb and its just soo easy to convert a gassed one to gassless ( just dont put a bottle on it ) :D

ps ; to make sure its a good un and will weld most things landy you need it to be 130 amp atleast and fan cooled for a decent working time :D:D
 
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